Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with you? I never understand this argument. I buy a fair amount of music, and I've *never* experienced this. Why are you buying stuff you don't like? Why perpetuate this stereotype of the labels cunningly gouging music-lovers?
I can throw on an Isis or an Opeth album, and enjoy the *whole thing*. There are some songs I like more than others, but I actually enjoy the bands I like (I wouldn't like them if I didn't enjoy them).
Why would ANYBODY buy an album when they don't like the songs on it? Having one or two "good tracks" is no reason. These people (I hear about but have never actually met) must be the most retarded consumers on Earth, paying for stuff they dislike.
That was the very first time that I was aware (as a kid) of Star Wars being movies designed to sell merchandise.
Well, you're either older than me, or I'm a little slow. I was nine when Jedi was released, and although the new movies are obviously an excuse for merchandising, I only recently realised how geared for marketing the franchise was back in the '70s.
I was looking through my old Star Wars collection earlier this year, and I noticed a date under the foot of my Taun Taun - "(c)1979".
1979?!?! Empire was released in 1980! They had their merchandising up and running well before the movie came out. In hindsight, it's pretty obvious, but it was still a very unwelcome slap of reality.
Although "Nineteen Eighty-four" is one of my favourite books, I can't help but wonder what it would have read like if Orwell had seen right-wing fascism as well as left-wing fascism.
You just articulated the current western-world (I live in Australia) situation better than I've ever seen before. I hope you won't mind if I use your phrasing in future conversations I have.
Annoyances such as UAC can be dealt with now, and any half competent support staffer already would have.
Software compatibilities CAN be dealt with via updates, such as a service pack, and have many times in the past. This is one of the dumbest comments I've read on Slashdot from someone who can spell.
Hardware compatibility issues on the other hand, take time. Drivers and support will come, eventually.
I used to play mp3s with no stuttering on a 486-100 using DosAmp. I cannot play mp3s or video without stuttering on Vista with a dual core 2.4 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA drive.
My old 486(DX2-66) running Debian (Potato, I think) had trouble playing MP3's. My Socket 939 single core Athlon64 3000+, 1GB RAM 250GB SATA running Vista plays video and audio flawlessly. Aren't anecdotes fun?
MS fanboys will all come out and say their systems all work perfectly. Horseshit. I've now had hands on with more than two dozen Vista machines ranging from laptops to upgrades and in every single case, that's 100% MS fanboys, not 99%, not 80%, all of them had stuttering media playback.
I've only played with two Vista machines, but they do, indeed, work perfectly. If you're having a 100% failure rate, perhaps you have an EBKAC error?
If there are better options than Firefox, why are you using Firefox? "Because Firefox works well enough" is not a good enough reason.
I agree with you that Firefox was never lean or efficient and that it's very buggy, so I switched to Seamonkey. It has all the flexibility that Firefox has, and it's quicker, more responsive, more stable, and just *feels* nicer to use. It's also being actively maintained and supported.
If the Mozilla Foundation started losing Firefox users, they'll start losing corporate dollars, and they'll start paying attention to what the users need.
Stop being part of the problem! You don't seem to like Firefox any more than I do!
I switched to Firefox when the Mozilla Suite was discontinued, but was never happy with it. I found it slow (despite all the hype about it being faster) and *very* unstable. When Seamonkey 1.0 was released (aka Mozilla 1.8) I gave it a try - brilliant! I'd forgotten how much faster Mozilla was compared to Firefox.
Seamonkey is fast, responsive, stable, and has all the features of Firefox (though for some reason, the icons in the bookmarks and toolbar are turned off by default - I just turned them back on).
If (like me) you want better than IE6/IE7, you don't like Opera, and want a better alternative than Firefox, try Seamonkey.
I've used every version of Windows since 3.1 (except Vista) and I've used several distributions of Linux (including Ubuntu). Although I haven't used Vista yet, I've heard nothing but bad things about it.
You may very well rephrase "Ubuntu just as good as Vista" as "Vista as bad as Ubuntu".
I'm not trying to troll, really, I just think everyone needs to take a step back, and at least try to be objective about their chosen platform.
How long ago did this happen? I signed up with E*Trade in January of this year, using Seamonkey. I've been following the progress of my portfolio every week since then using Seamonkey.
This is in Australia (etrade.com.au), but surely for costs sake, they'd be using the same back-end software worldwide. Why use a completely cross platform system in Australia and not in the US? (I'm assuming you're in the US.)
I call shenanigans. And for Christ's sake, stop saying "Micro$oft" - it just diminishes your comment's validity. +5 Interesting, my arse. You're just a karma whore.
Seamonkey seems to get all the little things right that get over-looked in Firefox (even down to the way the middle-click gets handled is nicer than Firefox).
The Seamonkey team (or is it council?) don't seem to be helping themselves - when I tried contributing to the documentation wiki, everything I did was removed the next day, along with the original work I was contributing to.
Now, I'm going to continue using Seamonkey as long as it's maintained, but I'm not too confident of it's future.
There is nothing to stop the customers/competitors to take the ball run circles around IBM. That is why Open source is not all that predatory.
Companies like IBM have the resources to open source a solution, obliterate the competition, and continue to develop non-opensource version of that same solution. Name one other company (besides Microsoft) that has those kind of resources that might use them to "run circles around IBM". It's a contributing factor to the constant open-sourcing of software - they retain control while generating good PR, driving the competition into the ground until they're the last man standing.
Open Source can be used in a predatory manner, just like closed source (if you're big enough).
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Why would you repeatedly buy "so many" crap albums because of the singles?
I have this mental image of Bart Simpson trying to pick up an electrified cupcake.
Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with you? I never understand this argument. I buy a fair amount of music, and I've *never* experienced this. Why are you buying stuff you don't like? Why perpetuate this stereotype of the labels cunningly gouging music-lovers?
I can throw on an Isis or an Opeth album, and enjoy the *whole thing*. There are some songs I like more than others, but I actually enjoy the bands I like (I wouldn't like them if I didn't enjoy them).
Why would ANYBODY buy an album when they don't like the songs on it? Having one or two "good tracks" is no reason. These people (I hear about but have never actually met) must be the most retarded consumers on Earth, paying for stuff they dislike.
Well, you're either older than me, or I'm a little slow. I was nine when Jedi was released, and although the new movies are obviously an excuse for merchandising, I only recently realised how geared for marketing the franchise was back in the '70s.
I was looking through my old Star Wars collection earlier this year, and I noticed a date under the foot of my Taun Taun - "(c)1979".
1979?!?! Empire was released in 1980! They had their merchandising up and running well before the movie came out. In hindsight, it's pretty obvious, but it was still a very unwelcome slap of reality.
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!!
Thank you, DavidTC.
Although "Nineteen Eighty-four" is one of my favourite books, I can't help but wonder what it would have read like if Orwell had seen right-wing fascism as well as left-wing fascism.
You just articulated the current western-world (I live in Australia) situation better than I've ever seen before. I hope you won't mind if I use your phrasing in future conversations I have.
What? You're kidding, aren't you?
Annoyances such as UAC can be dealt with now, and any half competent support staffer already would have.
Software compatibilities CAN be dealt with via updates, such as a service pack, and have many times in the past. This is one of the dumbest comments I've read on Slashdot from someone who can spell.
Hardware compatibility issues on the other hand, take time. Drivers and support will come, eventually.
One out of three. But keep trying.
I've only played with two Vista machines, but they do, indeed, work perfectly. If you're having a 100% failure rate, perhaps you have an EBKAC error?
Or, like any normal person who shouldn't need to Google Firefox to make it work, they should stop believing the Mozilla Foundation's marketing hype.
So should you.
If there are better options than Firefox, why are you using Firefox? "Because Firefox works well enough" is not a good enough reason.
I agree with you that Firefox was never lean or efficient and that it's very buggy, so I switched to Seamonkey. It has all the flexibility that Firefox has, and it's quicker, more responsive, more stable, and just *feels* nicer to use. It's also being actively maintained and supported.
If the Mozilla Foundation started losing Firefox users, they'll start losing corporate dollars, and they'll start paying attention to what the users need.
Stop being part of the problem! You don't seem to like Firefox any more than I do!
Try Seamonkey, seriously.
I switched to Firefox when the Mozilla Suite was discontinued, but was never happy with it. I found it slow (despite all the hype about it being faster) and *very* unstable. When Seamonkey 1.0 was released (aka Mozilla 1.8) I gave it a try - brilliant! I'd forgotten how much faster Mozilla was compared to Firefox.
Seamonkey is fast, responsive, stable, and has all the features of Firefox (though for some reason, the icons in the bookmarks and toolbar are turned off by default - I just turned them back on).
If (like me) you want better than IE6/IE7, you don't like Opera, and want a better alternative than Firefox, try Seamonkey.
I've used every version of Windows since 3.1 (except Vista) and I've used several distributions of Linux (including Ubuntu). Although I haven't used Vista yet, I've heard nothing but bad things about it.
You may very well rephrase "Ubuntu just as good as Vista" as "Vista as bad as Ubuntu".
I'm not trying to troll, really, I just think everyone needs to take a step back, and at least try to be objective about their chosen platform.
How long ago did this happen? I signed up with E*Trade in January of this year, using Seamonkey. I've been following the progress of my portfolio every week since then using Seamonkey.
This is in Australia (etrade.com.au), but surely for costs sake, they'd be using the same back-end software worldwide. Why use a completely cross platform system in Australia and not in the US? (I'm assuming you're in the US.)
I call shenanigans. And for Christ's sake, stop saying "Micro$oft" - it just diminishes your comment's validity. +5 Interesting, my arse. You're just a karma whore.
Agreed.
Seamonkey seems to get all the little things right that get over-looked in Firefox (even down to the way the middle-click gets handled is nicer than Firefox).
The Seamonkey team (or is it council?) don't seem to be helping themselves - when I tried contributing to the documentation wiki, everything I did was removed the next day, along with the original work I was contributing to.
Now, I'm going to continue using Seamonkey as long as it's maintained, but I'm not too confident of it's future.
Open Source can be used in a predatory manner, just like closed source (if you're big enough).